Manual of Arms from the Manual Exercise 1764 - Revolutionary War Tactics

Do you enjoy military tactics? Are you a living historian? Want to know more about how soldiers learned their craft in the Revolutionary War era? If you answered yes to any of these - join us! The Manual Exercise 1764 is a primary work of military drill for English speaking participants in the American Revolution. We are joined by two members of the 17th Regiment of Infantry (recreated) and we continue to learn by exploring the manual of arms.
If you are new here, we also suggest watching our earlier work on the nomenclature of the musket as it will help to know the parts of the weapon when we refer to them. Plus, you can view some excellent original pieces there. Also, be sure to check out the previous drill episode on how to fire and load the musket.
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[@michaelamend3637]

IN LOVE!!!

[@SirFrederick]

Huzzay!

[@RevolutionaryGazette]

Thanks!

[@josephwalukonis9934]

Nice presentation. Glad you mentioned that the Americans used the 1764 drill as well. I get sick and tired of hearing about von Steuben at Valley Forge. American units did drill prior to him and used the 1764 manual as well as Pickering and others. Von Steuben wasn't a Baron and he held rank in a Prussian Frei Korps Battalion not a proper Musketeer or even Fusilier Regiment.

[@rc6147]

He received his Baron title in the Court of Hohenzollern-Hechingen in 1764. Baron steuben instilled dicipline into the Continental troops at Valley Forge. They might have drilled prior with the '64 but he was resonsible in organizing strict dicipline in those manuals.

[@kaelball]

Lovely stuff. Regarding 'charge your bayonets'' the first motion in the '64 manual is 'as in explanation one' which I always thought pertained to 'poise your firelocks' which is the first explanation in the exercise. Otherwise, I really love the interpretation - In fact I'm going to have to revise some of our regularly practiced drill to match!

[@RevolutionaryGazette]

Hope it helps! What unit do you portray?

[@kaelball]

@@RevolutionaryGazette 17th in the UK :)

[@chickensandwich1589]

Who makes those land patterns? I want something a bit nicer than the one Pedersoli for when I get a full sized Bess...

[@RevolutionaryGazette]

Willing to bet they are old Mirkou reproductions.

[@chickensandwich1589]

@@RevolutionaryGazette Shame they don't make them anymore.

[@leojordan5119]

Huh... are they wearing white gaiters because this is a formal 'setting' or is that just part of the uniform, because they do look quite dirty and I don't think that a soldier would allow his Formal ocassion white gaiters to get that dirty, but then again I don't know, I reenact for the 8th so

[@RevolutionaryGazette]

Those are trousers, not breeches